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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
SUNDAY. MAY Is, 1887.

We hope that the Democratic Police
Commissioners VITO helped to make slim"
Davis the Autocrat of the Police Depart
menr sra not deter ed from reconsidering
their action by Il fear of being accused of
HAVING yielded to public clamor in the mat
ter. It is never anything against pubic
ofieisl that, when he finds his course IN
approved by the people. he retraces his
steps. 1t is indeed to his credit. Public
officials are only representatives of the peo-
PIE, and hold their offices only as public
truse ss 1t is impossible for all The people
of the city to act as members of the Police
Board; and,so, they delegate one of their
number to DO the work. 1t is the FIRST
duty Of good public servant to find out
what the people whom he represents want
to hs.ye~done, and do it, or what they do
not want, and have it undone. So when
these gentleman who represent the people
OF this city in the Police Board, learned
that the sentiment of their constituents
was strongly opposed to sting o.. one-man
powers in the hands of this man Davis,
they should at or &c have taken steps to re-
cal their action. It is not too late for them
tc do it yet; and they should hasten to
show their resi- act for public sentiment by
unho.sing Davis at the earliest possible
NON. nj. AS public men they cannot af-
ford to 90 on the Vanderbilt ''public- be-
dan aedn principle. The only interest the
people have in the police department is
that which comes of desire to see the
lives and limbs and propertyof citizens pro-
tectsd to the fullest limit compatible with
the facilities at command. They want to
hays this work done under the auspices of
a man whom til sy can trust at least. Over
and above all this it is absolutely essential
TO a realization Of all that is possible from
the police department, that the discipline
o: tie force shall be preserved. ''Jim'
DAVIS autocrat:c interference breeds and
a1ccu RACES insult ordination among the
men. Officer Christy Smith, as a sample,
WIS given an assignment the other day
That did no, suit his taste. He coolly told
hs scptli,r efficer that that was not wha
WIS intended, declared that he would have
it changed, turned on his heel, and wen
out. It is entirely useless to attempt t.
m ,nags and direct corps of men, every
one of whom feels at liberty to do or not t.
do as he pleases, It's about time the lit
tie farce was ended. Let the Police Com
missioners do their duty, and restore thu
control of the details of police affairs tt
the men whs are honest and experienced
and always on the ground and who bes
knew what the exigencies of che hsur de
mani, and with what mater ial to NEE
them.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
The Wash. Irxings.

The Washington Irving Dramatic and
Literary Association met at their club
room on Thursday evening, and elected
the following officers: President, Louis
Wyland; Viee-President, Lille Shaw;
Secretary, Ella Mason; Treasurer, Joseph
81. Newman, and Librarian, Frederick
DowAes. Miss A. Cooke was appointed
chairman of the executive committee. The
foregoing named will serve until the next
quarterly election.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
Arrested for u mhezalement.

NEWARK, n, j., May 14-William F.
Kirkland was arrested on q capias to-day
on an indictm emit for embezzling several
hundred dollars from Esbert Alsdorf.
Some years age Kirkland served term in
the Peniten!iary for similar offense. He
is unmarried and we'll educated.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The indications are that many of the
Grand Army posts will participate in gen.
It is said that Wilson and Van Houten
posts of this city, Won Buskirk post of Bay
onne, Custer post, Sons of Veterans, w. s..
Hancock post, Sons of Veterans, and Com
panies F and D of the Fourth Regim ent
have agreed to partic. pate. There is hope,
too, that q b iskie post may be persuaded
to come d. wn from the Hill and join the
line. The parade will be in the lower Sec
ton of the city. Afterward Van Houten
post will drop flowers on the graves in
New York Bay Cemetery, and Wilson post
will decorate the graves in the Jersey City
Cemetery AMI old st. Peters burying
crr0upd
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
Shonners and Ruyers.

There are shopping people and buying
people. either scanning the novelties ex-
posed for sale, or laying aside good sup
ply for their own wants, in our dry goods
stores on the avenues; and it is often a
puzzle for the ladies to decide where to
make their purchases. They are apt to
rely much on their own judgment and dis
elimination, yet We write this much to call
their attention to the advertisement in
another column of the popular dry goods
avanna
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
Arrest of a Boy Horse Thief.

Frederick Gseth. a fourteen year old
youth residing at 1926 West Twenty-sixth
street, New York, was arrested in Hoboken
Friday evening while trying to sell horse
and buggy to James Lamb, of IA Willow
avenue. The horse and wagon are the
property of S. w. Devoe of West Farms,
N. Y, and were stolen from that place
yesterday. They are valued at $3.50. The
young thief Will be given over to the New
York authorities.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
The Chestnuts win.

The Chestnuts defeated the Young Jersey
Blues on the Henry Street grounds yester-
day afternoon. The score was 30 to 10
If any other club of boys under IA years
think they would dare to tackle the Chest
nuts let them address D MoMuh IN, No.
70 Chestnut avenue.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

Justice William A. Lane could have taken
no other course than that he did in dis
posing Of Van Driver Kilburn's complaint
for libel against us. In the first place the
cause for action was trivial 10 absurdity
and in the second place Kilburn practically
admitted himself all that we charged. We
SSH Ia effect that he had played of sick on
election day 80 that he could do political
work for his Republican friends. Dan
toll "a court that at election time he was
confined TO his house by illness. He was
utterly unable to leave home the day be-
fore election, and Frustrated almost be-
yond description the day after it, But on
election day he found himself able to leave
home at o'clock in the morning and to
stay away from home till late in the even
ing. He was forced under the sharp cross
examination to which Cou nselor Asa w.
Dickinson sub jeeted him to admit that he
ha rot only voted, but bad been in close
proximity to the polls several times during
the day. He confessed that he was much
in.srssted in Max Salinger's election, and
that he had spent part of the day aud a
part Of the evening in the ofioe-o that
new political lamminary. Pressed to say
why he was there he declined to answer. If
the. evidence was not a practical substan-
tiat.oa OF ths desenos out of the States
witnesses own mouth, we don't know what
Ia. Those who desire TO believe that
politics didn't drag Dan out of his alleged
sick bel on election day, aad those who
desire 20 believe that he did no heeling for
his party friends while he was away from
hone, cen. We are frank to say that We
dsa. believe word of Dams protestations
of non-partisaa Indifference 10 the then
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
Soma Rsnl Eslnte sales.

j. M. Gibson, Real Estate Broker and Auction
eer OF A Montgomery straet reports the following
sales: House and let's, II and 70 Lexington Ave-.
to j. Chapman for 50. 200. House and lot. 1913
Morgan street. to James Lennon S2.30O. House
and lot 344 Fifth street to r. Petrie. 81 .525.
story nat and story brick dwelling, South West
corner Jersey avenue aud It'll street, Mrs. b. Han
non S1S $50 House and lot 264 Halladay street,
John Gregory. 1900. House and lot 209 Bruno
wick st Get. 81 200 Houses and lots Nos. 266 and
266i5 Halliday street, to H. Petiie, 81 600.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The Newark Call of last Sunday morning
makes note of remarkable change in the
Directory of the New Jersey Central Rail
road Company that is sure to interest Jer-
seymen, who, because it is the only road
that has heretofore been in any degree free
from the control of foreign corporations,
have taken local pride in it. The old
time Jersey Directors have disappeared
from its list of managers-the Knights and
the KeaEs and the Kelseys and the Titles
and it has gone into the control of syn
dicate whose names are entirely unfamiliar
to Jerseymen. The Long Island Railro ID
syndicate, of which Austin Corbin is the
active head; a Lehigh Valley syndicate and
Wall street syndicate have secured con-
troll of the stock and suspicion is general
that the road is to be sold in parts to the
great corporations that can use them. and
that it's autonomy will eventually be de-
stroyed. This change, threatening as it
does the existence of the road as an en-
tirety in the future, is matter of large
concern to Jerseymen, many of whom de-
rive their living from it now, and others OF
whom own its stock, and the future devel-
opments of the game will be keenly watched
all over the State.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
4 GOOD Nxample 20 Follow.

The popular grocer of Newark avenue.
Mr.. d. E. Cleary, is carr, ing out his usual
generous policy by closing his store at Z
o'clock p. M after the LIST of June so that
his clerks may have the full enjoyment of
the summer evenings.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

June seventh she Day sea for the Special
Convention.

The proc'nmati IN of the Grand Master,
!. o. o. F., calling among other things for
an election of subor Innate officers, in June.
has been issued as follows:
By virtue of the authority in me vested, 1 here
BY give notice that special session of the Grand
Lodge, l. o.. o. f !, of New Jsxsey, will be held at
the Masonic Hall, in the city Of Trenton, Tnes-
day. the 7th day of June, 1887, ut o'clock in the
afternoon, and an adjourned session thereof, in
the same place, at 30 O'Clock in she evening" Ihe
afternoon session will be devoted 10 the eonferr
ing Of the Grand Lodge Degree and at the close
opportunity will be offered the brethren to visit
the Odd Fellows Home. The evening session Will
be devoted to the exempiihcation OF the Order
written and unwritten. The Grand Lodge will be
opened in the degrees, and brothers of the Third
Degree admitted. further give NORGE that after
careful conference with the Grand Committee,
have reached the conclusion that the provisions
OF the United Constitution for Subordnates, adopt
ed at the last annual session of the Grand Lodge,
whereby the terms of Subordinate Lodge Officers
were liked at one year, is in direct conflict with
the section of the Grand Lodge Constitution which
makes their terms 10 consist Of twentysix regular
sessions, TO be held weekly The Grand
Lodge Consultation which Is silent upon this sub
jcct, aud which which also adopted at the
last annual session OF the Grand Lodge, cannot
go into effect until II is approved by tie Severe
ign Grand Lodge Our old Constitution of the
Grand Lodge is, therefore, still in force and the
terms OF the present officers of all Subordinate
Lodges will expire on the FIRST meeting night of
July next, when heir successors will be installed
WILL therefore, hold their elections Tor officers
usual. on their last meeting nights in June next
Secretaries will please read this proclamation at
each meeting proceeding the special session afore-
said.
FEaternally.
JOHN l. WHExLRR, Grand Master.
The reference to the s. ecial session
shows the interest taken IN the recently To-
Gated Home at Trenton. The annual SEES
sion OF the Grand Lodge Is always held at
Trenton, but the customary special ses-
sions have heretofore been held, one each,
in other sections of the State, as in Pater-
son and Atlantic City, or Newark and Cam
den, Tor the purpose of enabling JUNIOR
Past Grands to receive the degree without
the expenses of a trip to Trenton The
ensuing special session has been called at
Trenton that the Trenton Home may be
visited. The Odd Fellows in Essex, Hud-
son, Passaic and other counties away from
the capital are not as enthusiastic over the
Home as those residing in the immediate
vicinity of its location, and it is qusstiona-
BILE whether view of the structure will be
sufficient card to call them to the special
aeSaiOn
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The sociable eff the May Social Club at
Teutonia Hall Friday evening was well at
tended, and all had gay time. The COM
mittee of arrangements were G. Weber.
w. L. Holmes, L. O'Brien and Miss j..
Watt.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

pendin results. Justice Lane very tensibly
took he view that tn } evidence all tended
to the sustaining of the charge in the article
Dan complained Of, and, with degree of
prophet that few Justices can loast of,
dismiss I'D the com plant. And now it
m ght not be ta1idea for the Police Com
missioners to institute an inquiry to learn
why, if Daa was able to run around with
politicians all of election day, why he was
not abe to lder to the city tie rvice
for which it paid him
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

READERS OF TEE "sUNDAY TAT
Her" AS 1T WAS FIRST NAMED,
WILL REMEMBER THAT THE
CHANGED NAME OF THE PAPER Is
TIE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS"
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
AL Iron Han NIeellng.

Section No GA Branch of the Iron Hall, will
hold a regular meeting tomorrow evening at
Roches Hall. Business OF importance will be
brought forward. and all members earnestly In
yiied TO be present.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The Journal has an idea that the Health
Boards of the city and CO lnty are not
parties to the petty annoyances to which
some property holders are subjected in
connection with the scavenger work. Some
time ago two or three instances we're called
to our attention, in which the card of a
certain firm of scavengers followed imme-
diately upon the heels Of netice from the
City Health Board. One hour came an
order from the Health Board demanding
that certain vaults be cleaned. The mex,
hour followed the card of scayenger anx
ious to do the cleaning that had been order
ed done. Now, if some one will tell us how
it happened that the scavenger knew where
to send his card without having Learned
frsm the Health Board to whom their or
ders had been addressed, then We vii
gladly acquit the Health Board of collasio1
with the scavengers. If no explanation car
be made, we shall have to draw our OWL
differences from the circumstan ces.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
TWO WONDERFUL BEAs4,&
So Co.'s That They Put out Fire. aud
Intensely Poisonous. ~


Charles Reiche, the well-known- aninsal
importer OF Hoboken, received yesterday
two live salamanders from Japan, at his
menagerie in Park Row. New York None
OF their kind mas ever been in this country
beiore. They are SO rare that many natu-
ralists speak of them as being extinct,
having become SO in the tertiary period.
lneSe two speciSens are not yet full
groway although the larger measures abont
three feet long. They are kept in an iron
tank hAed with watey, and are repulsive-
looking objects. They appear like huge
black ard brown tadpsIes Just tanning in
to frogs. They are slapgisn in movement.
but this nlorRing one Of them Lifted his
head from.the water and spat vieipnsly at
those who vensnred near 1t inhsbits tAe
most obscure mountain streams. and
especially the deep and quiet waterS of the
craters of extinguished volcanoes, ut an
altitude of from 5000 to 5000 feet above,
the level of the sea. Pliny wrote that if:
this reptile happens to crawl up tree it,
infects all the fruit with it's poison and
kills those who eat thereof. The saliva,
too, of this reptile, if it comes in contact
with any part of the body, the sole of the
foot even, causes the hair to fall off from
the whole of the body. The salamander
Will poison water In which ii happens to-
be drow ned, and what is none, if it has
only drunk thereof the liquid becomes
poisonous. This animal is SO intensely
cold as to extinguish fire by Its contact, the.
same way as ice does.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

See Joseph Warren auctioneer's adver-
tisements of important auction sales of
real estate to take place on the days
named.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

New YORK, May Ia Justice Barrett has
denied the application of Mrs. Annie E.
Johns asking that the decree of divorce
granted to her against her husband, Henry
W. Johns, the President of the Asbestos
Paint Company, be set aside The divorce
was granted in 1882, for principal cause,
niece of Mrs. Johns being the correspond
ent. Mrs. Johns application to set the
decree ASIDE was based on the ground that
her husband, her counsel, ex-Gov Sala-
mon, of Wisconsin, and Eve uett P.
Wheeler and others, were in collision, and
by the exercise of undue influence over her
indaced her to bring the action, and that
they furnished false testimony against her
husband. 1he motive for the conspiracy
into which her brother, Henry Baohman,
is also alleged to have entered, Mrs.
Johns claims was the desire of her husband
to marry another woman. Counsellor
Whe eler, in an affidavit declared that the
charge of conspiracy is without foundation
and false, and that NJ s. Johns is the best
business woman he ever knew and was the
tnstigator OF the suit for divorce herself.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The unprovJkei murder of Musician
Litt!egoss, announced in the extra edition
of the SUNDAY MORNING News last Sunday
calls attention afresh to the demand for
tbs better security of life against the as
saults of the hoodlum clement of the town.
The vicious barroom and growler gangs
have been dealt with in times past, ali too
lightly. There have been four or five
Eaortal assaults by them in this town with
in the last year or eighteen months, and
not one of them has received, for his
crime, the punishment he so richly de-
served. What one of the fellows who
bridges one night because he refused to fill
their beer can for them, has ever been
brought to justice? Another starts cut to
''brsak the jaw" of an unoffending laborer
and leaves him dead on the street from the
blow His crime is investigated, and he
escapes with limit ed term IN the State
prison. Young Flood lies in wait for his
victim, plunges a knife into him, and
escapes the gallows. And last Sunday
morning comes the Littlegoss murder. at
the hands OF the same class of outlaws and
desperadees. Each escape achieved by the
perpetrators of past villainies has but
served to encourage others of his like to
fresh assaults. Nothing can suppress this
spirit of reckless brutality except the in
Fiction of the severest penalties known to
the law. Courts and juries should see
that they are enforced, and that the lives
and limbs of quiet, peaceable and useful
citizens are amply protected.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

The testimony taken at the inquest
over the Murdered musician on Friday
night, indicates that the fatal blow may
have been struck by Michael Carroll The
poles had an idea at the start that it had
been dealt by Lotus, the saloon keeper,
IN Whose place thu row originated. There
is little doubt that Lotus was in the
crowd that are responsible for the murder,
and that he provided the weapon with
which the fatal work was done but then
it was Carroll who was seen with the club
after the murder, and Theodore Luyster.
nephew of policeman Luyster, whose
father keeps saloon ear the scene of IL g
tragedy, testified that he heard Carroll
say, with an oath, that he had killed a
man. There's no doubt at any rate that
the police have bagged the right game
Finance Commissioners DATE can we'll af-
ford to challenge the groundless statement
the journal published the other evening,
charging him with having foisted his per-
sonal favorites into sinecures under the
Board of Works. There is no member of
the Board of Fiaance no man in fact in
the city governmsnt-who can court in
quiry with firmer assurance than Mr..
DATE. We do not believe that a single
member OF the Board of Finance has al
lowed Commissioners of other Boards to
put him under obligations by providing for
his political friends places within their gift.
The singular independence the Board of
Finance has shown of all the other depart
ments of the city government mnst have
Morris tribune., 1887-02-09
Painting Sound.

Some OF the happiest hours spent to-
gether by NIillet and the children were
in the beautiful forest OF Fontainebleau.
Millet, wearing an old, red, sailors
Jacket. weather-beaten straw hat, and
wooden shoes, was like boy himself.
One could not go far with him in an
afternoon. He found picture at every
step. At every turn of the path he
stopped, pc nting to the sunlight on
the tress. or to the MOSES on the
rocks, exclaiming, Look! See how
beautifulr' Often. when coming home
in the twilight, Mllet was attracted by
the fire of the blacksmith's forge at
the end of the village street, and he
paused with his friends. exclaiming at
the play of ligh upon the figures near
the forge and at the Pickering shadows
beyond. One evening he came upon
an old country cart with loose wheel
which made q noise, "poum, poum,"
as the cart rolled on. He stopped and
listened. and presently said that he
should like to paint a picture which
would make those who saw it feel that
sound coming through the twilight. 1t
seems contradiction to speak Of
sound in a picture, but i'll Millet's
greatest painting, The Angelus,' we
see a slender spire outlined against the
sunset light, two reverent figures in the
foreground, and we feel at once that at
the sound of the distant church bell
the peasants have bowed their heads in
evening prayer.-RipIey Hitchcock in
st. Nicholas.
Morris tribune., 1887-02-09
Enrethnnght of a DYING Man.

Rev. Hugh Gull is still well remem-
bered in Wayne county, where he lived
for more than half a century, and died
at the advanced age of 104 years. Dur
ing the last four years of his life he was
afflicted with sort of hypochondria,
and every once in while imagined he
was dying. On one such occasion he
mounted his adopted daughter on a
horse and sent her to notify the men,
bers of his family, who lived at some
distance, that his end was near, and if
they desired to see him die they must
come at once. While she was gone on
this errand he happened to think that
there was no wood cut and that his
children would be cold when they got
to his bedside, as it was in the middle
of winter; so, forgetting about his near
approach to death, he got up and went
to the woodpile, and when they arrived
in haste in obedience to his summons.
found him cutting wood to keep them
warm while they watched him die